BCR Questions

Monday, April 23, 2012

Pardon?

Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett, speaking in the House of Commons:

“(Aglukkaq) has cut programs for diabetes, youth suicide, Aboriginal health human resources. Can the minister explain to this house why her cuts target the population with the worse health outcomes in Canada, the Aboriginal people of Canada.”

Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq,

“As an Aboriginal person, I take that type of line of questioning to be unacceptable."

4 comments:

Chilling interviews from Democracy Now. There is nothing in me that can believe that this is not happening in Canada. Harper has convinced this woman to do something that is truly against her and her people's best interest. With the thugs he has around him pushing the telecom and Internet bills… it send chills

If I were the F.N. people, I would sue Harper for crimes against humanity. Seeing as Harper is already, under investigation for war crimes and crimes against humanity. ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, is deciding to do just that.

Harper is a true monster, of his Northern Foundation Party, from 1989. He is the worst P.M. in the recorded history of this nation. Harper is every bit as hateful as, Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini.

The health budget of the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) was cut by 100 per cent.

The health budget of the Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada was cut by 100 per cent.

The health budget of the Métis National Council (MNC) was cut by 100 per cent.

The health budget of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) was cut by 40 per cent.

The health budget of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) was cut by 40 per cent.

The largest number of job cuts at Health Canada are in the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch. And funding for the essential work of the National Aboriginal Health Organization was permanently pulled, without being reallocated to another vehicle for collaborative, community-based Aboriginal health research.

According to the most recent data from the Public Health Agency of Canada, the tuberculosis rate among Inuit is 284 times the rate for the Canadian-born non-Aboriginal population.

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